I just shot this last night. It was with the Sigma 10-20 DC HSM EX. I had to stitch all the pics together with DoubleTake. It's been downsampled from the large file after DoubleTake.

What do you guys think?

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/26/2006 03:54PM by wowzer.

I'd love to see it, but the link is only to the thumbnail.

very nice

the link took me to a scaled down image, a click on that took me to the larger image.

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The Taoist Zhuangzi said, "Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone".
The sociologist, and historian, Adam Ferguson described the phenomenon of spontaneous order in society as the "result of human action, but not the execution of any human design".

"I'd love to see it, but the link is only to the thumbnail"
Hmmm...works for me

But, anyways - very nice - how many different photos were stitched together to make this?

I've been pondering getting that lens - just have to convince myself to spend the $500.
(my current poor man's solution is a Raynox .66x slapped on front of the stock 18-55mm) - it gives ok results, but a there's bit of CA [www.flickr.com]

Great shot.
Did you shoot this from the bike path on Shore Road and 101st?

I shot it from the scenic view stop off the Belt.

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How did you avoid being nabbed by Fatherla....erm, Homeland Security for photographing a bridge? You security risk, you!

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Easy, I did it at 1-2am. The cops are all sleeping or at the Dunkin' Donuts at that time.

P.S. The wife did ask about that...but AFAIK, it's still America and DOHS really dont give a hoot about NYC...otherwise, they'd earmark more money for our defense. On 9/11, they were ecstatic if I ran to lower Manhattan to help, now aftewards, they are going to tell me that I can't shoot the Verrazano? It's a free country---and that's my final answer!

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"I'd love to see it, but the link is only to the thumbnail"
Hmmm...works for me

But, anyways - very nice - how many different photos were stitched together to make this?

I've been pondering getting that lens - just have to convince myself to spend the $500.
(my current poor man's solution is a Raynox .66x slapped on front of the stock 18-55mm) - it gives ok results, but a there's bit of CA [www.flickr.com]

It took about 5-6 images. I had a lot of extras, so I dont recall the exact number. DoubleTake is a bit limiting...I'm trying PTGUI now.

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PTGUI does a lot better job. Guess I'll have to register this one!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/26/2006 05:17PM by wowzer.

Great stitching job!

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I've been using Canon's PhotoStitch and have been happy so far, but after looking at those pics I think I'll try PTGUI.

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The Taoist Zhuangzi said, "Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone".
The sociologist, and historian, Adam Ferguson described the phenomenon of spontaneous order in society as the "result of human action, but not the execution of any human design".

nice

that is some nice stitching, for sure. I was intrigued by PTAssembler (on the PC) after seeing some of the images those folks were making

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Hurts like a bastid...

Man! Do I miss New York!

Nice job.

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Central VA

Nice pic.
Almost made it look worth paying the $9 to cross it.

Wonder if they ever recovered Bobby C's body?

How did you set the exposure?

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Hey Wowzer,

That's a really nice image. I love panos..

check this out and I hope you dont mind, i fiddled with your pic.

That pic looks great but it needed a bit of local and general contrast help, some color work, some work to draw attention to certain areas (the trestle in the background, i lightened up the sky around it and haloed it a bit). Also, neutralized the color a bit on the left and let the hot orange sky sit on the right alone (compositional choice).

There is also lots of detail in some of the shadow areas that can be brought up using a secondary burning layer in photoshop ..Layer menu..click> new> layer>mode=overlay>check the box for "fill with overlay-neutral color (50% gray)

once you get a new layer hit "d" and then "x" to set your foreground and background colors to white and black...use "x" to toggle from white to black to while you burn..

select the brush tool and the appropriate sized soft edged brush...start painting on this layer and you will get excellent, controllable burns and dodges for color images..this is one of the best ways to do this.

Anyhow...I also messed with the perspective via select all>edit menu> transform>perspective. i'm a view camera freak and I like those architectural elements to be vertical and somewhat in perspective. of course, a huge matter of taste here

Whatever...long story short...nice shot you made. I did lots of other stuff, see if you can pick it out.

If you want to send me a personal message I'll send you a higher res tiff of the image. It looks much better than this online version..lots of cool detail in your original. Nice work.

I like that other shot you posted as well, the one from the brooklyn walk...you could really get that thing singing with some of the same tricks. the foreground in that shot is cool and could be brought out very nicely.







Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 11/26/2006 10:18PM by Kraniac.

Kraniac,

I'd love to have the higher res tifs. The truth is that I was still in process of making all the other panos that I didnt' try to PS the photos afterwards. I like what you did, though...

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Used to be a day when folks would figure my joke out. [sniff?]

Great pic. I hate that bridge. Been stuck on it for hours.

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"I'd love to see it, but the link is only to the thumbnail"
Hmmm...works for me

Clicking on the thumbnail image does nothing here... running Safari, but that shouldn't make a difference.

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Used to be a day when folks would figure my joke out. [sniff?]

More likely lots of rolled eyes.

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Used to be a day when folks would figure my joke out. [sniff?]

More likely lots of rolled eyes.

I didn't say they were good jokes